Jose Luis Herrera

Jose Luis Herrera was a colonel of Colombia's Administrative Department of Security (DAS).

Biography
Jose Luis Herrera joined the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) of Colombia and rose to the rank of Colonel by 1979. Herrera's goal was to track down drug dealers like Pablo Escobar and enforce the law, and he stopped Escobar's convoy of trucks near Antioquia in 1979 and informed him that one of his men had been arrested. However, Escobar scared him by identifying him by name and by identifying his men Nacho Ibarra, Garcia, Lopez, Pinilla, Felipe, and Esparanza. Escobar told all of the men that he could bribe their families with the goods he was smuggling, and Herrera ordered his men to let Escobar through due to Escobar's threats of killing their families if they fought against him.